I actually got a chuckle after reading about the exploits of former Denver resident and career criminal Thomas Quintin. He runs a fraud scheme in California in the early ’90s that nets him millions of dollars and gets convicted. He manages to escape to the Cayman Islands with his wife. Do you think he opened any bank accounts there? He then gets captured in Canada and serves two years in prison. Following his release, he goes into the fraud business again and files more than 2,000 false income tax returns using the identities of the deceased that nets him just under $2 million. He’s then sentenced to five years in prison. Are you kidding me? Five years? I’ll bet he makes a beeline for the Caymans again upon his release and lives happily ever after!

Bill Fountain, Aurora

This letter was published in the May 15 edition.

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